Presents a flowchart that is used in the elementary qualitative analysis of a single salt. (GS)

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).

Four computer programs written in FORTRAN and BASIC develop theoretical predictions and data reduction for a junior-senior level heat exchanger experiment. Programs may be used at the terminal in the laboratory to check progress of the experiment or may be used in the batch mode for interpretation of final information for a formal report. Several…

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USE OF THE VERBAL REINFORCEMENT TECHNIQUE (VRT) IN DEVELOPMENTAL, PERSONALITY, AND SOCIALIZATION STUDIES OFTEN RESTS ON TENUOUS AND UNTESTED ASSUMPTIONS. THIS STUDY EXAMINED FIVE VARIABLES WHICH HYPOTHETICALLY RELATE TO PERFORMANCE UNDER REINFORCEMENT--SELF-ESTEEM OF S. TASK-INVOLVEMENT, EXPERIMENTER, ORDINAL POSITION, AND FAMILY SIZE. THE METHOD…

REFERENCES TO BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS THAT EMPHASIZE THE USE OF RADIOISOTOPES AS TRACERS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. MATERIALS INCLUDED ARE CONSIDERED TO BE READILY AVAILABLE AND WERE PUBLISHED AFTER 1960. SECTION I IS COMPOSED OF SELECTED SOURCES. ENTRIES INCLUDE (1) COMPLETE CITATIONS, (2) A BRIEF ANNOTATION, AND (3) LISTS OF…

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IN AN EXPERIMENT TO TEST EFFECTS OF A PROGRAMED TEXT AND RECORDS IN MUSIC INSTRUCTION, A PRE-TEST ON WRITTEN THEORY AND AURAL RESPONSE GIVEN TO 957 STUDENTS IN NINE SCHOOLS IN AN EXPERIMENTAL AND A MATCHED CONTROL GROUP SHOWED SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES FOR THOSE WITH PREVIOUS PRIVATE MUSIC STUDY AND HIGHER GRADE POINT AVERAGES, BUT NO DIFFERENCES ON…